Clothing Sizes And Hummer Limos
This is just a quick post to link to a fascinating blog I just discovered called Fashion-Incubator, which is written by an apparel industry pattern maker, Kathleen Fasanella. I know next to nothing about clothing, fashion, and its related industry, and have just about as much interest in it as well. However, she writes informatively and interestingly about what she knows, and as soon as I found her site I ended up reading just about everything on the front page. I was particularly drawn to her posts about sizing. I have a feeling I’ll be exploring her blog more in the future.
I found her site because TreeHugger linked to a post of hers about a hydrogen and biodiesel powered Hummer Limo she saw on a recent visit to Taos, NM. TreeHugger was also talking about a stylish wooden handbag she came across.
Posted: July 10th, 2005 under Science, Tech.
Comments
Comment from Adam
Time Monday, July 11, 2005 at 2:10 pm
You’re welcome! I figure any site I end up spending an hour or so reading over, especially when I had just casually clicked through to it for a quick scan of one post, is worth adding to my blogroll, and being mainly about the technical and egineering aspects of clothing, it just seemed to make sense to me to put it under science. So much of design is really science/engineering anyway, including a lot of the aesthetic aspects. Thanks for writing about it!
Comment from Kathleen Fasanella
Time Sunday, July 10, 2005 at 6:53 pm
While I’m _very_ flattered you mention my site and even link to it, I could HUG you for stashing it under “sciencey”. Too few women -and 97% of fashion entrepreneurs are women- fail to respect the science of manufacturing and consequently learn to become viable entities. This matters because at least in this business, women are kinder factory operators. Their leave and human resource policies are aligned with the realities of working women and mothers lives. Unfortunately, while 97% of apparel companies are started by women, 98% of them end up being owned by men! If women could learn to fear less, the tenets of manufacturing, and ignore the cultural appeal of fashion, we’d have a lot more nicer, kinder and gentler factories. Thanks for the compliment.